Finance

Expert Insights

Collect what you earn

November 10, 2011 | Expert Perspective | Health Care Advisory Board

As prices stagnate, it becomes more important than ever that hospitals manage to collect every dollar earned. Learn how to ensure you’re paid for services provided.
Which service lines offer the best opportunity to maximize the return on bundled payments?

September 28, 2011 | Blog | Marketing and Planning Leadership Council

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has released a bundled payment program in which participants can legally gainshare with physicians for episodes of care. Learn which service lines are best positioned to benefit from participation.
Properly designed staff incentives can boost POS collections

September 16, 2010 | Expert Perspective | Financial Leadership Council

See how one program has overcome typical implementation challenges to launch a successful front office staff incentive system.

Perfecting the Physician Revenue Cycle

July 13, 2011 | Study | Financial Leadership Council

22 best practices for improving physician revenue cycle management to curb losses on employed physician practices.
2011 Revenue Cycle Benchmarking Results

July 12, 2011 | Study | Financial Leadership Council

Review comprehensive benchmarks for all aspects of the revenue cycle, including organizational structure, staff productivity, costs, and departmental resource allocation.
Optimizing Front Office Performance

March 1, 2011 | Study |
Financial Leadership Council

23 best practices to help finance executives achieve top performance across the front office.

Complication and Comorbidity Coding Analyzer

October 6, 2010 | Tool | Financial Leadership Council

This tool's directional insights can support targeted clinical documentation improvement programs or post-payment audit risk analysis.
Medicare Evaluation and Management Code Utilization Profiler

April 29, 2010 | Tool | Financial Leadership Council

This tool provides a user-defined comparison group according to code type, specialty, and geography for Medicare patients and returns E&M utilization statistics.
Clinical Documentation Improvement Staffing Calculator

November 4, 2010 | Tool | Financial Leadership Council

Excel-based model assists hospitals in establishing appropriate staffing levels for clinical documentation improvement programs.

ICD-10 Revenue Cycle Management Impacts

January 25, 2012 | On-Demand Webconference | Financial Leadership Council

This presentation evaluates technologies that will emerge to generate the data necessary to support the specificity of ICD-10 coding.
Medicare Payment Strategy

May 25, 2011 | On-Demand Webconference | Health Care Advisory Board

Explore our analysis of CMS's final rule for the Hospital Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing program for FY 2013 payments.
The new performance standard

January 6, 2012 | Infographic | Health Care Advisory Board

A graphical look at how trends in pricing, cost, payer mix, and case mix will impact operating margins—and what we must do to respond.